Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped
and markets briefly dipped Shannon Bond / NPR : Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI Davey Alba / Bloomberg : How Fake AI Photo of a Pentagon Blast Went Viral ...
Twitter starts marking Substack links with a warning stating the link “has been identified by Twitter or our partners as being potentially spammy or unsafe”
I can neither confirm nor deny :) — However, this month I'll explore how to fill a complaint with @EU_Commission in terms of anticompetitive practice. … Bill Barol / @billbarol@journa.host : I would...
Twitter commentary erupts after Microsoft Ignite speakers described their physical appearance and race and noted the Microsoft campus was built on native land
where literally thousands of cultures have been eliminated by the most violent forms of conquest https://twitter.com/... Joseph Kahn / @josephkahn : I am a Korean American male wearing a white shirt w...
Twitter commentary erupts after Microsoft Ignite speakers described their physical appearance and race and noted the Microsoft campus was built on native land
where literally thousands of cultures have been eliminated by the most violent forms of conquest https://twitter.com/... @nostrachavez : As @peterboghossian said, maybe @Microsoft should give all of t...
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to the press and groups opposing Facebook, but reporting should now expand to examine Haugen and her backers' goals
> regulators —> legislation, we're not going to get the outcome we're hoping for. 7/n Joe Bak-Coleman / @jbakcoleman : My concern is that we're going to address “move fast and break things” with “regu...
In an attempt to open during the pandemic, many US universities are forcing students to download location-tracking apps, sometimes as a condition of enrollment
In Michigan, a small liberal-arts college is requiring students to install an app called Aura, which tracks their location in real time, before they come to campus. Facebook: Zeynep Tufekci . Tweets: ...
An in-depth look at how China is using AI-powered tech to build totalitarian surveillance systems before exporting that tech to other regimes around the world
Northwest of Beijing's Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus of national laboratories. Tweets: @zeynep , @edyong209 , @...
Sources and documents: Zuckerberg and others shelved damning research into Facebook's polarizing effect, weakening efforts to apply its conclusions to products
and refuses to stop Charlesarthur / The Overspill : Start Up No.1317: Facebook knew it was polarising, ban Trump's Twitter?, how Bill Gates became … Anmol Mehrotra / Neowin : Facebook reportedly knew ...
Facebook internal report: US users are reading more COVID-19 content from “higher-quality” sources based on its ranking of top publishers adopted last year
> Is Facebook really a “news powerhouse” again, thanks to coronavirus? (No more than it was before) https://www.niemanlab.org/... Tom Gara / @tomgara : The top four news publishers on Facebook right n...
Sources: Shadow, a company affiliated with Democratic digital nonprofit ACRONYM, built the Iowa caucus app that contributed to delays in reporting results
show’ a year ago Wall Street Journal : Iowa's Tally-by-App Experiment Fails Zeynep Tufekci / The Atlantic : Who Needs the Russians? Jeff Bercovici / Los Angeles Times : Tech firm started by Clinton ca...